Insurance underwriter BerkleyNet will relocate its headquarters from Woodbridge to Innovation Park just outside Manassas.
The company broke ground on a new 72,500 square foot facility on Wednesday, May 25.
More in a press release:
Due for completion in 2017, the three-story building, which will be called BerkleyNet Center @ Innovation Park, will feature prime Class A office space, with BerkleyNet occupying just over 50,000 square feet. Strong interest among the business community has already resulted in approximately 8,000 square feet of the remaining space being pre-leased to Christopher Consultants.
With renowned architecture and design firm, MGMA, serving as the base building architect, BerkleyNet Center is anticipated to be an architectural showpiece within Innovation Park that will set the standard for future developments. BerkleyNet’s spaces, designed by M Group Architects in Reston, Virginia, will incorporate ultra-modern finishes; an open workspace environment; a communicating space between the second and third floors to accommodate company-wide meetings; as well as a furnished outdoor patio for gatherings.
BerkleyNet’s home had been just off Prince William Parkway, across from the county’s Government Center.
The company is workers compensating company conducts business exclusively over the web and is a member of the W.R. Berkley Corporation casualty insurance group.
Brentsville District Supervisor Jeanine Lawson issued a statement about Innovation Park, located in her district:
“Today’s groundbreaking is another important milestone in the development of Innovation Park. It is part of the ongoing realization of the vision for Innovation Park – a vision that was borne several decades ago. The Park has evolved considerably from the establishment of George Mason University’s lone academic building in 1992 followed by the attraction of its first corporate client, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC) in 1998, to what we see before us today – a thriving, university-centered research and corporate park, the only one of its kind in the Washington DC Metro area. Innovation Park is now a veritable economic engine of growth and employment creation that is home to over 30 companies providing well-paying, sustainable jobs for over 2,300 people.”
